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Originally Posted by murraypaul
To tie in another thread, how would you respond if under the DEA one of the music companies decided your use of this service was infringing and applied to your ISP to have your service reduced or removed? How would you prove the rights you have to your MP3 files?
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If that was indeed the case, then I would be guilty, and in response to the warning letter that I would be sent, I would remove the infringing files from the Cloud service. That is the purpose of the warning, after all. |
So if they said you were guilty, you would think that you must be?
If they say the files are infringing, then they must be?
Even if you had bought these files perfectly legally, and you think you have the right to do what you are doing, there mere fact that someone else says that you don't would make you roll over?
In 2001, Paramount, Disney, NCS and CBS
sued a PVR manufacturer claiming that allowing users to skip commercials was enabling copyright infringement of their works.
In 2002, the Chairman and CEO of Turner said: "Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming."
These are the same people who are going to be calling your ISP saying what actions of yours
they think are infringing. Are you happy taking their word for it?